Sermon: Christ's Responsibility, Resurrections, and All in All

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Given 16-Apr-22; 78 minutes

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The numerous eye-witness accounts of witnesses to Jesus Christ's bodily resurrection (recorded in the gospels and the book of Acts) drove in a point that substantiated for all time an event that would otherwise have remained clouded or murky. The apostle Paul remained very positive of the significance of Christ's bodily resurrection, stating that Christ would ultimately destroy death (the last enemy) before returning absolute control back to the Father, at which time the entire creation would be 'all in all'. As God's people, we dare not let anything distract us from our destiny, to be shaped by Jesus Christ into offspring of Almighty God through an intricate sanctification process (requiring our cooperation with Our Creator), in which we come out of enslaving sin, preparing for our responsibilities in the Kingdom of God. In the gristmill of sanctification, we will make lots of mistakes, but all things will ultimately be brought back to God. Zechariah 13:1-2 describes a cleansing fountain in which David's descendants will be purified from the stain of sin. We are all on that path when the family of David will be rescued from the bondage of sin and death. In Jesus Christ's priestly prayer in John 17, He expressed the desire that His disciples, then and now, aspire to the same intimacy that He already has with the Father, assuring all those who have been called, that the Father personally picked each one of us individually. The Highest Authority in all of Creation knows us, having us in His thoughts perpetually. Our responsibility is to faithfully use His Holy Spirit to mortify the flesh and live by the Spirit. We realize that if we stay connected to the Vine, we will bear fruit and that, as the base elements of society, without Christ can do nothing.




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